"What on Earth is Gis?"

Digital Shoreditch, 2015

James Milner

@JamesLMilner

jmilner@esriuk.com

loxodrome.io

"So yeah, what's

this GIS thing anyway?"

Geographic information systems

 "That's like, maps  right?"

Kind of ... 

systems for dealing with geographic data

Edit 

Store

Retrieve

Analyse

Visualise

Query

Distribute

Route

Modeling Geographic Data

Coordinate Systems

"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."

George E. P. Box

using GIS to

find new insights

an early example....

A Modern Example...

but its not just supermarkets

but that's only one aspect

DESKTOP GIS

Web GIS

The future of GIS

• BIG Data

• Internet of things

• 3D 

After thoughts...

thanks

@JamesLMilner

jmilner@esriuk.com